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The Bible, as a text, carries within it a world that allows the reader to better understand him or herself. In general, the hermeneutics of texts can be applied both to the biblical domain and to other specific domains. However, Ricoeur argues that this specific application to the Bible offers an interesting opportunity, as it reveals the uniqueness of biblical hermeneutics. The Bible presents itself as an internally structured ensemble, where the naming of God stands as the point of convergence for different forms of discourse, such as narratives, laws, prophecies, proverbs, and hymns. At the same time, this naming of God always remains in the abyss, referring to the “God” or the “Infinite”. Thus, particular forms of discourse, like parables, eschatological proclamations, and proverbial formulas, emerge with their dimension of “strangeness”, hyperbolic or paradoxical, creating a rupture in the common perception of the world and reorienting existence through an initial disorientation. This “logic of the absurd” inaugurated by the texts points towards that which transcends our everyday reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Memory, Consciousness, and Forgiveness: Dialogues between the Philosophical and the Theological in Paul Ricoeur In his phenomenological approach, Paul Ricœur adds to the question of the origin of the subject those of lack and overcoming, i.e., the issue of his or her liberation through forgiveness. According to him, the problem of the origin of the subject and that of the origin of forgiveness are intertwined: the question of the subject's identity "who I am" is connected to the question of forgiveness "how can I be effectively free?" Ricœur's theoretical description of the will sheds light on the structures of human freedom. This latter is the condition of human responsibility, it grounds the possibility of guilt as a condition from which the human being cannot escape. Indeed, Ricoeur argues that guilt is freedom reduced to slavery. Guilt is extended to all humanity. Although the human being is guilty, there is still a hope for liberation. This is precisely what myths tell us: the myth of innocence concerns the desire, the courage, and the imaginary experience that supports the eidetic description of the voluntary and the involuntary. Ricoeur's analysis of forgiveness leads to memory, history, and forgetting. Otherwise put, it consists in a revival of the phenomenological phase of his thought, which has never been abandoned in his hermeneutical development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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